Three-letter prepositions in Arabic

In the previous post, we went through the one-letter and two-letter prepositions in Arabic. Now it’s time to move on to the three-letter prepositions.

We’ll start with the group على إلى حتّى and as you can see, all of them end with ى.

A spelling feature of على and إلى is that the final ى changes to ي when a pronoun suffix is attached.

Let’s look at some examples with على:

Preposition 'ala in Arabic
Now let’s move on to إلى
Preposition ila in Arabic

The preposition حتّى

Preposition hatta in Arabic
And finally, let’s look at منذ
Preposition mundhu in Arabic
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